A cellulose is made up of how many no. of glucose molecule?

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Nam D.
Apr 18, 2018

A large number, which depneds.

Explanation:

Cellulose is the primary building block of the cell wall, and is just a polymers of the molecule #C_6H_10O_5#. This happens when a molecule of water is removed from glucose.

Cellulose is a polysaccharide, and so it contains a lot of those glucose molecules, and has a chemical formula of #(C_6H_10O_5)_n#, where #n# can be any whole number, and can range up to #4000#.

Source:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellulose

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